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Andy Alderson (guest)
OH:

Rick Beyer, forcing students who attend Ivy League schools and are intererested in an ROTC program to travel to another campus is not "supportive." And just because Harvard states it will bring back ROTC when DADT changes doesn't make them pro-military. The fact is that these four schools do NOT have ROTC programs, and have been anti-military since the 60s. What is that saying about lipstick on a pig? Lt Col, USAF (Ret)

Jim Wojtasiewicz (guest)
VA:

Some years ago I had the pleasure of talking with a professor who had just resigned from the (Republican, as it happens) President's Council of Economic Advisors. He told me the best advice he could honestly give the President was to leave the economy alone; let it right itself. But that advice was politically no good because elections were approaching. Sound familiar? Presidents can't "fix" economies.

Michelle Coles (guest)
CA:

Never thought I would agree with Steve Steckler but he is correct. Murdoch wants a pathway because more people, cheaper labor. As an American who has worked people born in Asia, an American employer would rather hire them (even if their English is poor) over a U.S. citizen. Because they are cheaper! My wages have stagnated in the past decade and costs have increased. And big business wonders why people aren’t buying anything. Duh!

Andy Alderson (guest)
OH:

Janet Murguía, when you use the term "undocumented immigrants," I instantly know it is not the American people's interests you have at heart, but illegal immigrants. We, the legal citizens of this country, want our borders secured. Period. We expect immigrants to access our country legally. Period. And while deporting 12 million illegals may not be the answer, neither is providing them carte blanche amnesty in reward for their illegal activity.

Al Zeller (guest)
NY:

Why are we talking about Rupert Murdoch? Just because he's tied to Fox? Is that reason enough? So he believes in a pathway, so do lots of people. Where is anything about that conservatives want to secure the border first then deal with the people here.

Brad Bonar (guest)
PA:

Regarding illegal immigration and the recent news out of California - I have a question. Meg Whitman's former nanny is an illegal immigrant. She is here illegally. Has she been deported? And if not, why not? Jerry Brown is CA's attorney general, tasked with upholding the law and prosecuting offenders. Has Brown charged the illegal immigrant nanny? Has her status been alerted to ICE? And if not, why not?

Courtney Hathaway (guest)
MA:

David Biespiel reveals, as liberals are often prone to do, just how deeply their desire to control people's lives runs. If you value freedom, take note -- this is the liberal agenda. They decide what's best for you, and compel you by law to act accordingly. Remember that the next time you're tempted to check "D" in the ballot box.

John Sugden (guest)
MD:

Depends what his vision for the second half of his first term is. If he wants to double down on liberalism as he has done so far (Romer replaced with a harder lefty in Goolsbee, Rham replaced with someone who is a true ideological believer), as well as to preempt the blood lust of the Beltway media and use re-arranging the deck-chairs as an excuse to reach for his forgotten "change" metaphor - then yes, it would be a brillant short-term move.

Stefan Saal (guest)
NH:

We need to reduce that which is too much, and augment that which is too little. What about replacing Gates with Andrew Bracevich, Summers with Robert Reich, and Geithner with Nouriel Roubini? In their writings, these energetic men express rationality, empathy, foresight, and -- above all -- modesty. (For Summers, your own Dean Baker would be a wise choice, too. In which case, make Reich chief of staff.)

Michael St. Germain (guest)
MI:

I'm a first-year ROTC cadet at Johns Hopkins University and I think that the ROTC program is an excellent way to supplement a high-quality education (i.e. Ivy League). Mental development is much more than an academic exercise; it also requires critical thinking and emotional strength - both of which are taught in ROTC. Leadership development and management are also both Army-taught characteristics and will be extremely useful post college.

Adam Sinclair (guest)
MA:

How about we encourage our brightest students to become teachers? Our schools have serious problems and since teachers are paid terrible salaries it's quite obvious why. The most talented people in our country should be teachers or scientists. Period. Not executives, soldiers, politicians, business owners or stockbrokers. Our teachers should get a 100 percent raise across the board and our best and brightest students should be handsomely rewarded.

Laura Halvorsen (guest)
FL:

The current administration is stocked with people who have little, if any, practical experience. Instead, we have a cadre of self-indulgent, self-adulating academics and politicos who've spent their lives theorizing, hypothesizing and editorializing. They are content to use us as guinea pigs for their hot ideas, ignoring out of arrogance the fact that they've been tried and failed elsewhere innumerable times.

Jim Wojtasiewicz (guest)
VA:

With all my heart I respect all the members of the U.S. military it was my honor to serve with, top to bottom. Truly their intelligence and character make your jaw drop. At the same time my life has been ripped apart by the loss of those closest to me. Many of our military heros ended up dead, their families bereft. The right wing propaganda machine needs to approach how we sacrifice America's best and brightest kids with a lot more respect.

Danny Ross (guest)
LA:

I would like to see the draft re-instituted - not that it is going to happen. For one thing, pulling a few million young people out of the work force for year or so would work wonders on the unemployment rate. For another, it would be a good thing for a large portion of the population to learn which end of a firearm the round comes out of.

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